The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-05-03

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the sum Of twenty dollars.
Section ,. No such license shall
authorize the licensee to import, sell
or furnish opium or any preparation
thereof except on the prescription Of
a duly qualified physician.
section 8. The Board of Health by
its president may authorize any duly
/ qualified physician or surgeon or any
licensees under this Act to enter OPT
um and preparations thereof at the
Custom House on the payment of the
duties thereon, anything IN the Act
approved on the Sth of August 1874
entitled An Act to restrict the i'm
portation and sale of opium and pre-
parations thereof to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Section 6. Any person who shall
import, sell or furnish any poisonous
drug without license, or contrary to
the provisions of this Act shall be
fined not less than fifty nor more than
five hundred dollars or to be impris-
oned at hard labor not exceeding six
months in the discretion of the Court.
Nothing in this Act contained shall
be construed to prevent the Govern
ment or the Board of Health from i'm
porting any drugs or medicines
Section 6. The provisions of Chap
ter LXXXYIII of the Penal Code
shall apply to all persons holding
licenses under this Act"
Chapter LXXXVI1 of the Penal
Code referred to in the last mentioned
Act regulates the sale of deadly poi
sons and prescribes the manner in
which records shall be kept by per-
sons selling the same, and Section 1
enacts that:
Every licensed physician, druggist
or apothecary who shall compound.
sell or deliver any prescription con
tanning any poisonous drug or sub
stance deleterious TO human life. to Be
used Is medicine, shall enter upon his
books said prescription written out in
full with the date thereof, with his
own name appended thereto, or the
name of the physician who prescribed
the same and the person to whom the
same was delivered /; and no such pre-
scription shall be compounded, sold
or delivered unless the name of the
person compromising, selling or deliv-
ering the same, or the name of the
physician prescribing the same be APP
pended to the prescription in full, and
every such prescription shall be pre-
served and said books and prescrip-
tons shall be subject at all times to
the Minister of the Interior or his
agent"
). Any person violating the provi-
sions of this chapter shall forfeit sum
not exceeding one thousand dollars
for each offense.
In the session of 1880 another Act
was passed relating to Chinese physi-
clans. who were thereby allowed to re-
ceiye licenses to practice medicine.
subject to the same laws and restric-
tions as other licensed physicians"
1t would seem that the effect of the
law, Chapter XIV of 1880, was to re
move some of the restrictions of the
law Of 1874, and allowed licenses to be
issued to persons outside the physi-
clans mentioned in that law to sell
poisonous drugs, and sell and furnish
opium or its preparations to persons
having prescriptions from aEy duly
qualified physician.
And it would also seem that all per-
sons dealing in poisonous drugs, of
which there can be no doubt opium is
one, were compelled to keep records
of sales, etc.
And that no physician or surgeon
could sell or prescribe OF furnish
opium or preparations to any person
: 10 tie habit Of smoking or otbeg1oise using
tie same
And also that in consideration of
the license fee the persons licensed
could send for opium themselves, and
the Board of Health were relieved
from the necessity Of importing it.
We now come to the law Of 1856. /
entitled An Act to regulate the i'm
portation and sale of opium in this
Kingdom
Ihls Act repeats all laws and parts /
Of laws inconsistent with it.
Its provisions are as follows:
Section l. The Minister of the In /
terror Is hereby authorized. with the /
consent Of HIS Majesty the King in /
Cabinet Council, to grant to some one /
therefor a license to import I
and sell opium or any preparation of .
opium IN this Kingdom upon the said .
Minister Of the Interior receiving for
such license the sum of thirty thou
sand dollars for each year.
Section 2 Before the license pro-
vided for in this Act is issued the per
son or persons who have obtained the
same shall make and execute and de
liver to the Minister of the Interior a
good and sufficient bond IN the sum
Of ten thousand dollars, with not less
than one good surety, to be approved
5y the said Minister, conditioned that
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